Ok - I'm an artist and graphic person with limited techie skills, trying to set up my first domain. Please don't laugh!

I've designed (on Dreamweaver) and uploaded (to Yahoo Geocities) at least twenty 'free' websites, for myself and others - all basic stuff with text and images, not much more. I know enough HTML to edit the code in minimal ways (colour, resizing, etc.) I also know that the names of the images and how they are referred to in the HTML 'page' have to match up - and I've never had any trouble with the basic Yahoo File Manager. I've successfully linked pages, created buttons, etc. Now: I'm using CPanel. I have put a simple placeholder page called, creatively enough, 'index' for my new site, www (dot) alembyc (dot) com. It has a grand total of THREE images - a background, a banner, and a enter sign. WHY, when I visit my site, does an 'index page' show up listing the files rather than displaying my artsy front page as it was designed?

It depends on the configuration of the web server and host you are using... typically, you need a file called...

index.htm OR

index.html OR

index.php (if it's a script)

When one of these is present, it will be used instead of displaying all the files.

Finally, cPanel can have quite a few different features depending on what was enabled by your web hosting company.